The winners will receive a total of $1.85 million in grants from USAID to address gender-based violence (GBV) in the environment sector. The five local organizations – across Central America, Eastern and Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia – will address GBV in the context of environmental conservation, resource use in climate-vulnerable settings, and the protection of Indigenous women environmental human rights defenders.
About the RISE Challenge
The Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge is a first-of-its-kind fund available to organizations working to address gender-based violence in environmental programming and climate-vulnerable contexts. It is a direct response to key research findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on gender-based violence and environment linkages and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The RISE Challenge invests in partnerships between environmental, gender equality, and community-based organisations and leaders working to address gender-based violence in developing countries around the world.
An excerpt from the original posting on USAID.gov
